With nothing left to lose, he embarks on a trip to Las Vegas, where he intends to finally drink himself into his grave. Cage stars as Ben Sanderson, a screenwriter whose drinking has cost him everything. Leaving Las Vegas is a story of alcoholism that begins at rock bottom and then just keeps burrowing further down. Nicolas Cage's ratio of good films to mindless movies/weird, performance art-like crap is perhaps a bit disproportionate, but when he brings it, he really hits it out of the park. It's so unrelentingly grim that, as well-made as it is, you really only want to see it once because it's such a harrowing experience. ![]() If it isn't the most depressing movie ever (one of Ingmar Bergman's films may lay claim to that title), Leaving Las Vegas has got to be, at the very least, in the top 5.
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